The Wild Orchid

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The Wild Orchid, the first part of Nobel Prize-winner Sigrid Undset’s novel The Winding Road, tells the story of Paul Selmer, a typical child of the experientially emancipated, intellectually enlightened modern age. Born into an upper-middle class, Protestant parents, who divorced when he was a teenager, Paul is raised along with his sister and two brothers by his mother to be a freethinker. Amidst the prosaic trappings of his work and play, the pursuit of a mistress and then a marriage, and with the threat of a world war looming over Norway, Paul yearns for a deeper, more abiding meaning and order for his hopes and loves.

“Let me not be allowed to extinguish the spark that has again begun to glow within me.”

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